Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLI. Opechee the Robin Redbreast, sentence 34
Sitting on the top of the lodge he sang these words:
Who acts: father · What happens: sit, sing · To what, where: top, words
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XLI. Opechee the Robin Redbreast. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 top | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 top | det |
| 4 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sitting | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 lodge | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lodge | det |
| 7 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 top | nmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sang | nsubj |
| 9 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lodge | acl:relcl |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 words | det |
| 11 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sang | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | gerund | the top of the lodge | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on top=Location | |||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | father | this words | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Project Gutenberg book 73136 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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